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In this work we study the cost of local and global proofs on distributed verification. In this setting the nodes of a distributed system are provided with a nondeterministic proof for the correctness of the state of the system, and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Laurent Feuilloley , Juho Hirvonen

The goal of local certification is to locally convince the vertices of a graph $G$ that $G$ satisfies a given property. A prover assigns short certificates to the vertices of the graph, then the vertices are allowed to check their…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Oscar Defrain , Louis Esperet , Aurélie Lagoutte , Pat Morin , Jean-Florent Raymond

Locally checkable labeling problems (LCLs) form the foundation of the modern theory of distributed graph algorithms. First introduced in the seminal paper by Naor and Stockmeyer [STOC 1993], these are graph problems that can be described by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Antonio Cruciani , Avinandan Das , Alesya Raevskaya , Jukka Suomela

While SDNs enable more flexible and adaptive network operations, (logically) centralized reconfigurations introduce overheads and delays, which can limit network reactivity. This paper initiates the study of a more distributed approach, in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Klaus-Tycho Foerster , Stefan Schmid

Locally-biased graph algorithms are algorithms that attempt to find local or small-scale structure in a large data graph. In some cases, this can be accomplished by adding some sort of locality constraint and calling a traditional graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Kimon Fountoulakis , David Gleich , Michael Mahoney

Local certification is the area of distributed network computing asking the following question: How to certify to the nodes of a network that a global property holds, if they are limited to a local verification? In this area, it is often…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Nicolas Bousquet , Louis Esperet , Laurent Feuilloley , Sébastien Zeitoun

A local algorithm is a distributed algorithm that completes after a constant number of synchronous communication rounds. We present local approximation algorithms for the minimum dominating set problem and the maximum matching problem in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-02-02 Matti Åstrand , Valentin Polishchuk , Joel Rybicki , Jukka Suomela , Jara Uitto

Graph learning is often a necessary step in processing or representing structured data, when the underlying graph is not given explicitly. Graph learning is generally performed centrally with a full knowledge of the graph signals, namely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Isabela Cunha Maia Nobre , Mireille El Gheche , Pascal Frossard

We extend the notion of distributed decision in the framework of distributed network computing, inspired by recent results on so-called distributed graph automata. We show that, by using distributed decision mechanisms based on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Laurent Feuilloley , Pierre Fraigniaud , Juho Hirvonen

Proof-labeling schemes are known mechanisms providing nodes of networks with certificates that can be verified locally by distributed algorithms. Given a boolean predicate on network states, such schemes enable to check whether the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Laurent Feuilloley , Pierre Fraigniaud

In this work, we give a unifying view of locality in four settings: distributed algorithms, sequential greedy algorithms, dynamic algorithms, and online algorithms. We introduce a new model of computing, called the online-LOCAL model: the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Amirreza Akbari , Navid Eslami , Henrik Lievonen , Darya Melnyk , Joona Särkijärvi , Jukka Suomela

Graph coloring is fundamental to distributed computing. We give the first sub-logarithmic distributed algorithm for coloring cluster graphs. These graphs are obtained from the underlying communication network by contracting nodes and edges,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Maxime Flin , Magnus M. Halldorsson , Alexandre Nolin

In this work we study local computation with advice: the goal is to solve a graph problem $\Pi$ with a distributed algorithm in $T(\Delta)$ communication rounds, for some function $T$ that only depends on the maximum degree $\Delta$ of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Krzysztof Nowicki , Dennis Olivetti , Eva Rotenberg , Jukka Suomela

In the study of deterministic distributed algorithms it is commonly assumed that each node has a unique $O(\log n)$-bit identifier. We prove that for a general class of graph problems, local algorithms (constant-time distributed algorithms)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Mika Göös , Juho Hirvonen , Jukka Suomela

Models for image segmentation, node classification and many other tasks map a single input to multiple labels. By perturbing this single shared input (e.g. the image) an adversary can manipulate several predictions (e.g. misclassify several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jan Schuchardt , Tom Wollschläger , Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann

We consider the problem of classifying a map using a team of communicating robots. It is assumed that all robots have localized visual sensing capabilities and can exchange their information with neighboring robots. Using a graph…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Guangyi Liu , Arash Amini , Martin Takáč , Héctor Muñoz-Avila , Nader Motee

The present paper studies local distributed graph problems in highly dynamic networks. Communication and changes of the graph happen in synchronous rounds and our algorithms always, i.e., in every round, satisfy non-trivial guarantees, no…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Philipp Bamberger , Fabian Kuhn , Yannic Maus

Distributed proofs are mechanisms enabling the nodes of a network to collectivity and efficiently check the correctness of Boolean predicates on the structure of the network, or on data-structures distributed over the nodes (e.g., spanning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Laurent Feuilloley , Pierre Fraigniaud , Juho Hirvonen , Ami Paz , Mor Perry

A distributed algorithm performs local computations on pieces of input and communicates the results through given communication links. When processing a massive graph in a distributed algorithm, local outputs must be configured as a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Fan Chung , Olivia Simpson

In the area of distributed graph algorithms a number of network's entities with local views solve some computational task by exchanging messages with their neighbors. Quite unfortunately, an inherent property of most existing distributed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Merav Parter , Eylon Yogev